Five Situations for Camera, Recorder and People

Year Published: 1965

Creator: Alex Prisadsky

Description:

Five Situations for Camera, Recorder and People (1965)
A UCLA Workshop Production by Alex Prisadsky. A surrealistic montage of scenes that escalate to ever more violent forms of male behavior. Alex Prisadsky has written about fellow UCLA student Jim Morrison's involvement in the film: "Before the shooting of Five Situations, I asked all my crew, along with my friends who were in it, to wear dark suits. Morrison was the only one on the crew who didn't have one, which was one of the reasons I asked him to be the sound man. The other was that I had seen he had a feeling for sound. He had used some outtakes from someone else's film, some aerial shots I think, and placed various sounds over them: some Bach, and then some thunder. Each transformed the image into something new and mysterious. After another student's audio mix session, Jim once said, 'Maybe I should be in radio instead of film.'"

Complete Record: Five Situations for Camera, Recorder and People (1965) A UCLA Workshop Production by Alex Prisadsky. A surrealistic montage of scenes that escalate to ever more violent forms of male behavior. Alex Prisadsky has written about fellow UCLA student Jim Morrison's involvement in the film: "Before the shooting of Five Situations, I asked all my crew, along with my friends who were in it, to wear dark suits. Morrison was the only one on the crew who didn't have one, which was one of the reasons I asked him to be the sound man. The other was that I had seen he had a feeling for sound. He had used some outtakes from someone else's film, some aerial shots I think, and placed various sounds over them: some Bach, and then some thunder. Each transformed the image into something new and mysterious. After another student's audio mix session, Jim once said, 'Maybe I should be in radio instead of film.'"